Jinzhousaurus

Taxobox
name = "Jinzhousaurus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Jinzhousaurus yangi" fossil displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Cerapoda
infraordo = Ornithopoda
superfamilia = Hadrosauroidea?
genus = "Jinzhousaurus"
binomial = "Jinzhousaurus yangi"
binomial_authority = Wang & Xu, 2001

"Jinzhousaurus" is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in China. A nearly complete skeleton has been found. The type (and currently only known) species is "Jinzhousaurus yangi". It was first described by Wang and Xu in 2001. "Jinzhousaurus" lived during the Barremian stage, around 125 million years ago.

References

Wang, X.-L. & Xu, X. (2001) "A new iguanodontid ("Jinzhousaurus yangi" gen. et sp. nov.) from the YixianFormation of western Liaoning, China". Chin. Sci. Bull. 46, 1669–1672.

External links

* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/iguanodontia.htm Igunaodontia]
* [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/detail.dsml?Genus=Jinzhousaurus "Jinzhousaurus" in The Natural History Museum's Dino Directory]